App A Day : Sleep Cycle For iOS

Do you have erratic sleep patterns? Do you suffer from sleepless nights and drowsy days? Then Sleep Cycle is the iOS App for you. This is one of the most innovative ways to incorporate the device’s accelerometer to monitor your motion patterns during sleep. This alarm clock helps keep us on our toes even if we have been busy all night.

The app monitors your sleep pattern throughout the night and will ‘wake you up when you are in the lightest sleep phase’. When we sleep, we go through phases of light sleep and deep sleep. Which phase you wake up in results in the kind of mood you will be in all day. If you wake up in your deep sleep phase you will find your self dull and sleepy throughout the day.

The app works brilliantly, and takes upto 4 days to register your sleep patterns, once they are fully registered you will find yourself waking up on time. The only catch is that the app requires that you plug in the iPhone all night leave the app running and place the iPhone on your bed upside down, so that the accelerometer can monitor your movement. The good thing however, is that the app uses the proximity sensor to turn off the display.

The App also gives you a report of your sleep patterns over the period of use of the app. With this you can monitor your sleep time and deep sleep patterns.

The disadvantage : if you leave the app to do some other activity the alarm is reset. However it should be used as the last point of interaction.